I really don't think terror is much a problem for the State dept. No amount of terror will ever bring down the Imperial Colossus. Now, independance and socialism, that's a different story. And by socialism, I mean the kind that grows from the ground up. Those are definite threats.

I find myself in the embarrassing position of agreeing w/tokybk. It's silly to judge the past by our own standards. Styles change. Look at some of those old pictures the monks painted of knights storming castles. Not a drop of blood to be seen. But we all know what went on.

Anyhoo, how do you know the invigilators aren't censoring us anti-zios? Rhetorical question: you don't know. I can affirm some of my own insightful rejoinders to you vacuous hasbarats have never made it passed this desktop.

Oh Izik, you're such a card. Gassing en masse is so 1940's. Today the preferred method of eliminating the inconvenient is to slowly turn the screws, and when the victim strikes back, you shoot him, accidently of course.

I didn't read all the above bloviation, so, in case no one has pointed it out: Why on earth would Assad, who's backed into a corner, with images of Ghaddafi's end going through his mind, a hairsbreadth away from being assassinated, the imminent destruction of all he is and owns, why would he consent to a massacre he couldn't possibly coverup, given the plethora of satellites, drones, cell phones, text messages, spies, journalists etc. Forget all you may have read or heard or guessed at, and think on this one truth: the pigeon does not thrash the hawk. It just doesn't happen.

"It is like blaming Harvard or HKUST for every bad action every one of their alumni make." Because Harvard grads regularly murder peons then dis-embowel them so they'll sink when tossed into the river.

Dear Mr. Invigilator: why are my considerate, thoughtful, helpful posts scrubbed and the excrescences of these arm chair hoplites allowed into the bloglight?

Theme park! Precisely! I stopped reading there and came down here to write this. So true. It's like an annex for Disneyworld: Jewdoland? Or like a yiddische Knots Berry Farm. So gratifiying for a complete stranger to express your exact perceptions of the "Jewish" State. It means people are looking at the evidence and drawing the same conclusion. QED.

How build a state? Based on intimidation and terror; even Israelis admit it. At one time that may have been the style(cf The Normans), but not anymore. Sorry Jews, that ship sailed long ago. Oh, and that's not even the kicker. This state is to be called a "Jewish State" into the bargain? But nobody knows what that is.

And then what? Two states, I hear you say. But Israel would never allow another state on it's borders with an equivalent Wehrmacht, even though that would be the start point of any negotiations, and eminently fair. So, one state armed and one not? No, that's what we have now, more or less. Aha! Two, disarmed "states". Well, hell, might as well have one state then. Which is sensible, when you think about it, since there's only ONE place to put your damn state!

This is why people like OlegR should get the heave-ho. He makes a big pretense of being open-minded, thrusting and parrying with one specious argument or another, but when called to account for his opinions in a credible way he just clams up and pops up somewhere else as if nothing has happened.

The only thing that makes any sense is that this is some kind of elaborate kabuki theatre. The Republicans blustering about a war that's less and less likely(does anybody really think they have a chance in the next election?),Obama looking like a hero for standing up to AIPAC whom nobody has a good word for.

Meanwhile the "Jewish State" scoops up more of what is not their's to take, and the "international community" is focused elsewhere.

Israel is the "bad guy" in a wrestling match: fighting dirty when the ref's not looking but the audience is.

Nobody wants two states, not really. Except for the delusional. Imagine a border between these "two states": with each side bound and determined to have as many Stukas and Panzers as the other. Not to mention divvying up the natural resources each side will share. Israel wants it all and is not going to part with any of it, no matter what The Nice Man of TV says. Abbas, Obama, whoever, they could crawl up the steps of the Knesset on their tongues for all the good it would do.

Huh? You mean the interview when Henry K was flogging his book? Did we see the same thing? Colbert slobbered all over the ghoul. Kissinger's face didn't fall; it brightened when asked about Mao and he seized the opportunity to don his halo and slam the brutal Helmsman for doing terrible things "to his own people".

This is no argument. Who cares what Merkins have to pay to feed their cars? If the price doesn't rise, that's ok, then? And the Pirates of the Mediterranean? If they return safe bearing plunder, that's fine?

"I feel Jewish." On a scale of one to ten with ten being the most Jewish you could ever feel without your precious jewdihood spilling from every orifice, how Jewish do you figure you're feeling right now?

"They're a cult." Precisely. The best way to appreciate Israel for what it really is is simply believe in the opposite of what they say. Terrorists? They are. International law? They flout it. Self-defence? Aggressive war. Civil Society? Stick 'em up! Conspiracies? The bleedin' obvious...

hmm, I like Annie. The prose is dense but rewards close attention. But he's merely stating the obvious: Israel, like Canada and the US and lord knows who else, were imposed on the world from elsewhere by squabbling bureaucrats.

If anyone has NF's ear ask him to consider the absurdity of the situation: A special, "chosen" person(and that cliche is apt) is given leave, simply because of an accident of birth, to jump the queue to the Promised Land. How can that be sustained or even justified? What's wrong with one state? Officially non-religious; if you want to be a Jew, you're a Jew; a muslim, a muslim; Xtian, ditto; none of the above, no problem. Would that not be the proper model of peace and justice?

The Lizard Party's literary tranche likes to trot out Ol' Thucydides to showcase the loftiness of their supposed culture. However, the lesson Thucydides imparts, that Imperial Powers who abuse their own allies ultimately come to grief, is lost on them.

Because the war isn't against Islamic terror. Hell, Amrika, Israel et al are happy to fund Islamic terror when it suits their precious interests. The war is against the Red/Green Tendency than which nothing else is more inimical to those same interests.

America is a big, complicated place. Some US capitalists sell cornflakes, some missile guidance systems. I've no doubt the latter are chomping at the bit for war. Ditto for the builders of fighting ships and jets. It means jobs, and jobs mean votes. It means returns for the investors of Raytheon, General Dynamics, Lockheed and so on. Billions to be poured into the politcal campaigns in districts that support the war industry. In my own short sojourn in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Depraved, I noted military encampments fairly thick on the ground. More votes, more guns.

Up here in the Great White Afterthought, Kenyans and Somalis are settling in. In terms of miles flown or bridges burned I'd call that pretty darn rootless. In fact, if rootlessness was rewarded by more than a shrug(meh, who ain't rootless, and who gives a damn anyways), these dusky strangers would win 1st place.

From the library I borrowed a DVD, Defiance, starring Daniel Craig. From the illustration on the box I was expecting an hour and a half of mindless CGI violence, with a timeout for some poorly lit humping...Within the first minute I realised I was about to watch another installment of an emerging genre of Holocaust revenge fantasies, in which a righteous gentile mensch organizes a rag tag cadre of camp escapees, sort of like the Shtetl Seven, into a deadly vagabond commando force, operating behind the lines, sabotaging and garotting as they go. And then it occurred to me: don't the producers of this bilge realize it militates in favor of Holocaust denial? If these sorts of movies reach a wide enough audience, nobody's going to believe in the big H. The Holocaust? But I thought the Jews fought their way out of it.

You know, Slater, not every country is blessed with huge resources, massive armies, oceans to east and west and compliant neighbours of slim account north and south. Nor are their citizens free to slurp barbecue and budweisers while the Nice Man on TV gives sermons on Freedom. Sometimes "brutal dictators" are the best fit.

Not to forget the media's deployment of the following terms: authoritarian, dictator, totalitarian, in stories involving such diverse figures as the Saudis, Lukashenko, the Castros, Kaddafi, Ahmadinejad etc, depending on who needs to take the place of Stalin in the lazy minds of hoi polloi.

Nuh-uh. Marx was clear: Workers of the world unite. Not, Yes, you over there, gather round. But, you, over there, we got a special State for your own use. Come see us in private after this convocation.

Why? The question is asked and left hanging there. Anti-semitism is the answer we are expected to supply. Yes, Hillary, Barack, Leon et al: anti-semites, every one! But, of course, Kristol will never say so in public.

Once the Republicans anoint their candidate, circle the wagons and begin campaigning, Obama is going to be faced with accusations of being insufficiently pro-Israel, even anti-Jew. Will he try to outdo the opposition in Israel-love? Is that even possible? I shudder to think what THAT would look like. Or will he grow a spine and cut the "Jewish" state loose?

haha! true. But who would dare publish it? Anyway, I'll start: One day the Zohar met a Blonde shiksa, a cheerleader for a Christian University in Iowa. And with his subtle wiles (bribes, scholarships) persuaded her to carry water for an underground cadre of Zionist freedom fighters.

Socialism takes practice, like tying shoes. Capitalism had at least four centuries head start since the first merchants were given leave to set up benches(banks) in the town square and offer financial services and not merely wicker baskets and leather harness. It allowed cloth merchants to sail from Italy to England and buy up ship loads of wool with no more than a piece of paper.

When it comes to Communism(or the fear of it), the Dept of State will stop at NOTHING to eradicate it. Nothing. No crime is too hideous. No criminal too unsavory. Look at El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia and on and on. Men in suits with pleasant smiles devouring human flesh.

Crowther, what the hell are you talking about? When was Che ever a "despot"? You're not "really up on your Che history" but you don't mind indulging in uninformed cliche. "Authoritarian"? What does that mean? He drove over people in his tank? He paddled nuns' bottoms. What?

Thankyou, now go read I. Shamir, ex-Jew, Xtian, on Stalin-the-horriblest-dictator-evah(TM) and his(Shamir's) cure for the Jews Blues. If your life is a process of disillusionment, you owe it to yourself.

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